The League of Oregon Cities plans to lobby the legislature next year for a constitutional amendment relaxing the limit on property taxes. Let’s hope lawmakers will resist the cities’ blandishments. Instead, they should give cities better tools to reduce their costs.
School shootings like the one in Troutdale Tuesday will keep happening until  we learn to keep teenagers from developing murderous impulses and acting on them.
Albany has plans for a program to keep storm water from polluting our waterways, and it looks to me that the city staff has taken pains to keep any additional regulatory burden to a minimum. The city’s proposed answer to impending regulations is that new land developments above a certain size will have to incorporate features […]
If anybody wanted to award first prize for bureaucracy, the federal government and the insurance industry would likely be among the top contenders. Put the two together and you get bureaucracy squared. Here’s what happened to an Oregon couple, as reported to me by email:
The ear-splitting whine of chainsaws made me take notice Friday afternoon on the Waverly Drive bridge across Cox Creek. Turns out a crew working for R. Franco Restoration of Aumsville was just winding up a day’s worth of work on the creek banks all the way from near Salem Avenue.
Obama, Australia and guns
President Obama likes to hear himself talk. That’s the only explanation for the amount of talking he does, especially when he talks the kind of vague nonsense he uttered in an online interview Tuesday after the latest school shooting. Among other things, he said his biggest frustration after one and a half terms in office is […]
Tags: Australian gun laws, Barrack Obama, school shootings